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Actors: Kim Basinger, Christina Ricci
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bless the Child |
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Maggie O'Connor (Kim Basinger) must fight to protect her young niece from a demonic cult which has been kidnapping and murdering children in a mad search for a messianic child who holds the key to the future of good and evil, heaven and hell.
--Michelle Yusuf, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bless the Child |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- terrorist kidnappers
The terrorist enemy is...
- cult
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- long, wavey (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
- mind control
- clairvoyant
- super strength
- can cast all sorts of spells
- can read emotions
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- rude people
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- decapitated
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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